Heather McShain

Heather McShain is an Adjunct Professor of Law and currently serves as a Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Illinois. Her professional career includes ten years as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the NDIL, where she held roles such as Deputy Chief in the Financial Crimes and General Crimes Sections. She also served in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and practiced law at Jones Day in Washington, D.C. Her legal expertise spans financial crime prosecution, public corruption, and organized crime litigation.

• Education: B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame; J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.

Her professional trajectory includes judicial clerkships with Judge Robert Cowen (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit) and Judge William Lee (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana). Her work emphasizes federal criminal law, white-collar crime, and litigation strategies in high-stakes cases.